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Definition of Anasazi in English:

Anasazi

noun

A member of an ancient North American people of the south-western US, who flourished between c.200 BC and AD 1500. The earliest phase of their culture is known as the Basket Maker period; the present-day Pueblo culture developed from a later stage.

‘He cites the Anasazi, but I cite the Cherokee, the Sioux, and countless others.’

‘Starting with this village, students may find interest in studying the abandoned villages of the Anasazi of Colorado and New Mexico, the ancient temple cities of Mexico and some of the deserted cities of the Middle East and Asia.’

‘A new computer simulation of the changing environmental conditions around one of the Anasazi cultural centers early in the past millennium suggest that drought was not the only factor behind a sudden collapse of the civilization.’

‘In this home of the Dinetah, or Navajo holy land, as well as Anasazi cultural sites dating back 10,000 years, modern energy companies have engaged in a ruinous dig-a-thon.’

‘The later film picks up where the first left off, attempting to show that the Anasazi used solar and lunar cycles to locate pueblos in and around the Canyon.’

‘Now, students of the ancient Anasazi to the north are reaching a consensus that this people as well, far from the docile agriculturalists they have usually been cast as, were also capable of great violence.’

‘Victoria said she thinks the Anasazi are related to the various pueblos in New Mexico - Yldefonso, Black mesa, Taos, etc.’

‘Humans absolutely must have a consistent fresh water supply, as the Anasazi Indians of the Southwest found out during a prolonged drought a few hundred years ago, when they had to abandon their homes.’

‘The ruins of the Anasazi or ‘Ancient Ones’ date back to the time of Christ.’

‘Though the Old Spanish Trail route is a few miles north of here, the museum's exhibits on Anasazi and Paiute culture offer a glimpse of what the landscape looked like before European settlers arrived.’

‘In the southwest corner of Colorado Mesa Verde has long been a sellout destination, thanks to its ancient cliff dwellings that were home to the Anasazi.’

‘Diamond has investigated many different instances of cultural extinction, including the Mayans, Pitcairn Islanders, the Anasazi, Norse Greenlanders and the Vikings.’

‘Looking at the same stars the Anasazi looked upon a millennium ago is spooky fun.’

‘Early users included the Patayan and Anasazi peoples and the Southern Paiute.’

‘He takes a look at some real historical boneheads: the peoples of Easter Island, the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Greenland Norse - people you don't hear much about today because they're gone.’

‘Another example comes from the Anasazi, who lived in the American South-West.’

‘The appearance of this supernova was also recorded in carvings made by the Anasazi Indians of the American Southwest.’

‘To celebrate the many facets of Anasazi, Hopi, and Pueblo cultures, the museum wanted to focus both inward on the spaces that exhibited cultural artifacts and outward to the beautiful surrounding desert.’

‘The period also induced a severe, decades-long drought that may have brought on the demise of the Anasazi culture of North America.’

‘This magazine instead exemplifies our best grounds for hope: we have the means to learn from what happened to the Anasazi, while they had no means to learn from the fates of prior societies elsewhere in the world.’